{"id":19731,"date":"2012-06-15T19:15:38","date_gmt":"2012-06-15T11:15:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wp-productionenv-bjg9h2g2bgg5b8aa.southeastasia-01.azurewebsites.net\/news\/how-to-propose-to-your-gf-and-explore-space-with-an-iphone-at-the-same-time\/"},"modified":"2012-06-15T19:15:38","modified_gmt":"2012-06-15T11:15:38","slug":"how-to-propose-to-your-gf-and-explore-space-with-an-iphone-at-the-same-time","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/news\/how-to-propose-to-your-gf-and-explore-space-with-an-iphone-at-the-same-time\/","title":{"rendered":"How to propose to your GF and explore space with an iPhone at the same time"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-full wp-image-45057\" title=\"now is the time 300\" src=\"https:\/\/cdn.geekwire.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/04\/now-is-the-time-3001.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"168\" srcset=\"https:\/\/cdn.geekwire.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/04\/now-is-the-time-3001.jpg 300w, https:\/\/cdn.geekwire.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/04\/now-is-the-time-3001-200x112.jpg 200w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\">We love hearing about Geeks like these\u2026guys who just think up a creative project and go. This one resulted in a marriage proposal alongside a little space exploration, a strange yet delightful combination indeed.<\/p>\n<p>Inspired by the 50-year anniversary of John Glenn\u2019s orbit of the earth, these three gents who work in Seattle\u2019s video industry, Jason Hakala,&nbsp;Michael Gaston and Joanny Causse, decided to launch a weather balloon with an iPhone attached that was playing a video collage of quotes and images inspired by space exploration. The views they captured are impressive to be sure \u2014 the balloon made it approximately 80-90,000 feet up \u2014 but what may be even more impressive? While the balloon eventually popped, the iPhone came out of the trip in fine working form.<\/p>\n<p>The video collage also included Hakala\u2019s proposal to his girlfriend, which as they say, \u201cmay be the first marriage proposal from space.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>They\u2019ve posted neat videos of both the finished product and the background to creating the project, right down to the marriage proposal.<\/p>\n<p>Live long and prosper, you guys. Live long and prosper.<\/p>\n<p>OpenSite presents Now Is The Time<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We love hearing about Geeks like these\u2026guys who just think up a creative project and go. This one resulted in a marriage proposal alongside a little space exploration, a strange yet delightful combination indeed. Inspired by the 50-year anniversary of John Glenn\u2019s orbit of the earth, these three gents who work in Seattle\u2019s video industry, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[5043,4361,21],"class_list":["post-19731","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news","tag-geek-life","tag-iphone","tag-space"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19731"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=19731"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19731\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=19731"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=19731"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=19731"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}